Reply to: Greece defaults!

[Doggy Styles]

<allo allo>
Who is this Jack Hughes of which you speak?
</allo allo>

Jack Hughes, producer of The Yeomen of the Guard in 1956 at the Winter Gardens Theatre, Hoylake.

I can see the connection.

[wobbegong]

J'accuse!!!

<allo allo>
Who is this Jack Hughes of which you speak?
</allo allo>

[Doggy Styles]

Aha! Another Greek default thread.

Guns of Navarone!

[sasguru]

Hmmmm

[Churchill]

J'accuse!!!

Actually I'm hungry and beginning to feel a little sick

[suityou01]

Here's my considered opinion.

IT'S ONLY A ******* NUMBER!

This number can and will be adjusted.

The world as we know it won't end.

Now, which one of you lovely young ladies is going to put the kettle on? Oh, and fetch the digestives I seem to be having a little flatulence problem this morning, there's a love.

J'accuse!!!

[DimPrawn]

If anyone downgrades the US credit rating from AAA I suspect we might find the head of that credit rating agency has suddenly and without warning decided to commit suicide. Probably stab themselves 50 times in the heart and neck and then hang themselves etc.

[Churchill]

Here's my considered opinion.

IT'S ONLY A ******* NUMBER!

This number can and will be adjusted.

The world as we know it won't end.

Now, which one of you lovely young ladies is going to put the kettle on? Oh, and fetch the digestives I seem to be having a little flatulence problem this morning, there's a love.

[suityou01]

Back on topic.

If Greece defaults, it will be the economical equivalent of a parakeet farting quietly in some distant corner of a rain forest. The markets know how fooked Greece is, and have priced it in.

Now, if Italy were to hit the buffers ........ And this is where the real fear is.

The US will never default. Can't happen. They are and have been in technical default for about 18 months, and just keep moving the goalposts of what defines technical default. S&P may downrate them, which everyone says is bad, but I can't see if being the financial armaggedon that people are worried about.

[sasguru]

Living in those cities is not the same as working in them, weekend trippers do not integrate. Typical.

Yes Billy no Mates

[scooterscot]

I've worked in Germany, Switzerland, the City and the regions.

Living in those cities is not the same as working in them, weekend trippers do not integrate. Typical.

And without doubt the greediest people work in the City - its a magnet for the greedy from all over the world.

FTFY

[sasguru]

Most of the talented people i know have dispersed. True creatives can work from anywhere, the technically good to germany or the us. London is a place to stop for a bit to make money, not a place to make a life, though some have and are happy enough.

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I've worked in Germany, Switzerland, the City and the regions. And without doubt the brightest people worked in the City - its a magnet for the talented from all over the world.
And most of them loved London for its cosmopolitanism, history, parks, galleries, museums, pubs, clubs, live music, street markets etc etc.
Don't get me wrong unlike most I've a soft spot for Germany. I think we coukld learn a few lessons from them.
But the only German city I've been in that has that feeling of life to it is Berlin. Other cities I've lived in or visited in the German/Swiss world: Basle , Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich seem provincial by comparison: they're just too sterile.

[Sysman]

The yanks have a tremendous ability to get themselves out of the glue, the place was stuffed more than once last century and they will do it again once they get shot of Obama who clearly knows nowt about making money.

Despite their ability to vote in total idiots to power they are a highly creative industrious nation with a good educational system and a strong work ethic when pushed. What much of Europe lacks.

Yet the Yanks I know have been complaining for several years that their education system is being dumbed down.

Agree with the rest though.

[Pondlife]

I'm on my way!

Taxi!

to keep you warm when you're on the streets.

[DimPrawn]

i just don't think it's the centre of the universe or even a particularly great place to live unless the only thing you care about in life is money in which case it's a natural choice.

I'm on my way!

Taxi!